Featured Stories in Northern Ireland (2025)
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Ireland Long Ago Closed Mother-and-Baby Homes, but Their Painful Legacy Remains
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — In May 2024, Billy Scampton from Londonderry and Shannon Ritchie-Leet from Ontario, Canada, walked to the […]
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A Modern-Day Passion Play on the Walls of Londonderry Reimagines Jesus’ Final Days
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Jesus, understandably, is the star of most Passion Plays. The story of Christ’s Passion, derived from […]
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A Growing Hindu Community Brings Holi and a More Diverse Saint Patrick’s Day to Belfast
BELFAST, Northern Ireland – The St. Patrick’s Day Parade here this year featured the expected shamrocks, green hats, traditional Irish […]
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Despite Some Anti-Muslim Sentiment, More Irish Are Converting to Islam
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — One Friday morning two years ago, Harvey Mills took a train to Belfast from his quiet […]
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Bloody Sunday Victims’ Families See Hope for Justice, 53 Years Later
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — On a late Sunday afternoon in January 1972, 27-year-old William McKinney slung a new movie camera […]
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Halal Grocers in Belfast Brace for Rising Costs Amid Global Trade Shifts
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — When Brexit first went into effect in 2020, Makkah Market’s Ramadan order came late. The owner, […]
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Blades Over The Burial Mound: The Fight To Save A Sacred Northern Ireland Site
RATHFRILAND, Northern Ireland — It all started in 2017 with a trench. That year, a power company was preparing to […]
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An Interfaith Movement Grows in a Christian Land
BELFAST – The Northern Ireland Interfaith Forum typically meets over lunch, but at a recent gathering, the secretary, Edwin Graham, […]
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In Belfast, a Small Jewish Community Reaches Out to its Christian neighbors
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest and prayer, there is barely a quorum of 10 […]
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West Belfast Musicians Are Standing Up for Palestine
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On the eve of Saint Patrick’s Day this year, locals gathered to ring in the holiday […]
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Finding My Greers: A Journey to Unearth and Understand My Family’s Roots in Northern Ireland
TEMPLEPATRICK, Northern Ireland — Growing up, I had always heard tales that our family’s ancestry was Scots-Irish, via the Greer surname […]